[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

Again with your pictures of anorexic girls your missing the point.

How is that missing the point when Gary was actually referring to annorexic girls and not naturally slim ones?

There was a program on TV tonight about this very issue - not about naturally slim and attractive women but about those who have shortened their lifespan and damaged their internal organs by trying starving themselves into a size 6 or 8 at 5ft 10 or more. Even Sophie Dahl succumbed to pressure to conform.

Medical experts described these women in similar terms to those which have been cricicised in this thread.

I have a friend whose naturally slim 14 year old daughter has dieted herself into a scary frailty and yet still sees herself as fat and still wants to lose more weight!

I admit that I'm fat, or to be more accurate, obese. I don't enjoy it and I don't stuff my face with pies and chocolate 24/7 as is the popular misconception. It may seem ironic for me of all people to worry about this girl but I do worry about her and I'm thankful my girls aren't as stupid.

I wish the fashion industry in general had the approach that Gayle has and would show normal people of all sizes and admit that we come in short, tall, slim and rounded shapes all of which are natural instead of portraying the unnatural as an ideal to be aimed for.